How do you feel at the end of a product demo? Happy? Energized? Ready to celebrate? Does this feeling last? My colleagues and I have seen our share of Scrum Meetings. We wrote previously about the Daily Scrum, and decided to focus on demos this time. Many of the demos we’ve seen had issues, and some …
Recently we’ve proudly announced the launch of MozaicLabs – spin-off from MozaicWorks focusing on developing proprietary software products. As the MozaicWorks team has always been a team of practitioners, MozaicLabs focuses our doers efforts into bringing innovative products to market. Aiming to bring great value and delight to customers, we pay as much attention to the user …
The Mozaic Works coaches have many conversations with people who have burning questions about Scrum, either in community or during trainings. We’ve decided to start answering the most common ones in a series of “Burning Questions” blog posts. So here’s another burning question. This time it’s about managing Scrum: How Do We Make Sure All …
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The Mozaic Works coaches have many conversations with people who have burning questions about Scrum, either in community or during trainings. We’ve decided to start answering the most common ones in a series of “Burning Questions” blog posts. This blog post is the first. 1. How do I convince my team to buy into Scrum? …
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Watch the video from the first edition of Bucharest Agile Talks, where Flavius Stef picks a winner in the battle of Scrum versus Kanban. Or does he?
User story slicing is a key agile practice, yet many teams my colleagues and I work with struggle with it. The stories they create often are too complex, unclear or without a clear value attached to them. There are many ways to deal with this situation: workshop, coaching, learn by trying or reading various materials …
This article was published first in Today Software Magazine, no 28. Below it’s the full version. The author: Alexandru Bolboacă Why Agile? “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius ** Unpredictability I have seen in my 15 years career as a developer, technical lead, project manager, freelancer, trainer, agile/lean/technical coach and again developer many …
Recently, I participated in an experiment for Product Development. It was during a weekend, in the mountains, with a team of 8 persons from Bucharest Agile Software Meetup Group. We didn’t know each other very well and we have not been working together before. Our misson was to develop a product in a day and …
The first version of this article was published in Today Software Magazine, no 24. Below it is an updated version. The authors: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă The Beginnings How fast could you create a software product starting from an idea? This is the purpose of this article. We will explain our concept, from a technical …
We have been doing Agile for over 10 years now and we have been focusing on people, interactions, team building, the ecosystem. As a result, we are now working in a software environment where “processes are more important than technical practices”. This is how Sandro Mancusso started his keynote at ITAKE Unconference 2013, a talk that was very appreciated …
